BARCELONA – Paris-based production house La Fabrica Nocturna, a co-producer on Marcelo Martinessi’s Berlin prize winner “The Heiresses,” has boarded Spaniard Chema García Ibarra’s awaited feature d…
Produced by San Sebastian’s Apellániz y de Sosa and Alicante’s Jaibo Films, “Sacred Spirit” moves between local detail and dystopic surrealism, in which half of Spain sets out in search of a missing girl while a Spanish Ufology association— UFO-Levante— prepares for a night of sightings. The fate of humanity depends on one of its members: the morbidly obese José Manuel, who hides a secret.
The project has secured Spanish distribution via La Aventura Audiovisual, the distributors of Olivier Assayas’ “Personal Shopper.”’s Incubator has just closed partnership agreements with San Sebastian International Film Festival and Paris networking event Small is Biútiful. These add to other deals with TorinoFilmLab, Rotterdam Lab , and EAVE, the Europe-Latin America film development and networking workshop backed by the E.U. Media program.
Part of ECAM’s The Screen, a program launched to promote the creation of new feature films and as a link between ECAM and Europe’s audiovisual industry— the Incubator’s second edition has focused on four more projects apart from “Sacred Spirit”: “Five Little Wolves,” “Ane,” “Killing Crabs” and “La mala familia.”
Produced by Manuel Arango at Madrid-based Tourmalet Films, headed by Borja Soler and the producer of Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “Stockholm,” Omar Razzak’s debut feature “Killing Crabs” turns on the elderly inhabitants of cave-houses in Canary Islands, who will soon be evicted after their dwellings are declared unfit for human habitation.A project that begun with a documentary spirit has now evolved into a coming-of-age, autobiographical fiction, Arango said.
“Last year, saw a strong presence of genre projects, this a large number of drama and personal stories. “We’re going through a deep transformation process. Where are we heading in industrial terms? And where are new generations heading? Both will condition each other. Audiovisual literacy is the key,” said ECAM director Gonzalo Salazar-Simpson said. ECAM is also providing audiovisual training for educators in Spain.
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